Big Timber is honored to co-own HFS Jeremiah with Tim and Beth Sheets of Heritage Farm Suri Alpacas. Our first five offspring from Jeremiah were born in August 2018: three gorgeous males and two stunning females out of our stud females, Malika,Tahiti White Pearl, Kerolyn, Sweet 16 and Aphrodite. His 2018 offspring won Jeremiah his first Get of Sire awards in major competitions. Jeremiah is a 7X Champion and a 2X Judges Choice winner. Although his conformation is perfect, Jeremiah's fiber is his greatest asset. His highly aligned and organized wave and twist locks equate to density, fineness and luster. His follicles are tightly packed clusters that "shingle" over each other. Jeremiah has top suri male genetics including Rockstar, Torbio, Baron Lafite and Ramilo. His maternal genetics are just as awesome with Accoyo Lafite's Mucha Bella as his dam, an award winning, top ranked EPD female that has produced champion offspring, along with Accoyo Luna, who produced multiple champion offspring. Jeremiah ranked in the top of the 2023 EPDS: AFD: top 5% SF: top 5% His 2014 skin biopsy showed a density of 52.25 and a secondary to primary ratio of 8:1. His primary to secondary spread was 7 with a secondary micron of 15.9 and a primary micron of 22.9. He has 3 out of 4 gland presence and his secondary medullation was under 30%. Dr. Norm Evans commented: "The variation in fiber diameter of primary to secondary fibers is only 7 microns which is exceptional. This male should exhibit superior handle since he is not only very fine but unique in that <30% of his secondary fibers show medullation. He certainly exhibits exceptional fleece traits that should be passed on to his offspring." In the SHIPS classification, Jeremiah scored perfect 5's for all the conformation categories. In fleece characteristics, he scored a perfect 5 for uniformity of color and fleece phenotype. He scored 4.5s for luster and uniform lock and 4's for fineness and handle. He also scored 3s for uniformity of micron and density. Jeremiah won the Futurity 2024 Herdsire of the Year Award for the Small Farm Division. An honor well deserved based on his mutliple champion offspring! Overall, Jeremiah's quantitative data supports his superior suri genetics and prepotence. His multiple champion offspring prove his worth.

This beautiful, 3/4 Accoyo fawn female expresses the finest in the most sought after Suri traits: high level of luster, fineness and density, along with strong Accoyo conformation. Aphrodite's sire is one of the few solid color Accoyo males, Jax Accoyo High Roller, who won multiple banners in the show ring. Her dam is Ubers Tinker Bell, a multiple show winner also, with top Peruvian and Bolivian bloodlines. Aphrodite has exemplary fiber stats with her strong points across the board in lock, fineness, handle & density. At age 2, she had a suri classification score of 4.33 and superior fiber stats of: AFD: 18.5 and SD of 4.4. She is retaining her fineness and uniformity as she ages. At six years old, her AFD was only 22 with a CV of 21.7 and fibers >30 at a low 5.8%. The SHIP classification scores for APHRODITE are outstanding with a perfect 5 for FINENESS along with 4.5s for LUSTER, HANDLE, and DENSITY. Her fleece characteristics exemplify the highest standard for maximum reproductive and fiber processing value. Dr. Norm Evans conducted a biopsy in 2017. His report: "Her density is 63.66 follicles SQMM. She graded level 3 of 4 glands presence. Her S/P ratio is 10.1. Her secondary fibers averaged 19.7 microns while her primaries averaged 26.3 microns for a micron spread of only 6.6 microns. Aphrodite's AFD figures 20.35 microns. This female's strong points are her density, S/P ratio, gland presence and most especially she has retained her fineness." In addition to her excellent fleece characteristics and conformation, Aphrodite has demonstrated her genetic prepotence in her offspring. All three of her offspring thus far have won ribbons in competitive shows. Aphrodite produced a stunning young male in 2013, Dior's Casual Man. He has achieved 8 blue ribbons and 2 Reserve Color Championships in competitive halter shows. Aphrodite was bred to our multi-champion and judges choice, HFS Jeremiah for a 2018 cria. Her beige female cria, Matsudana, was born in August and is absolutely stunning! Layers of lusterous, flat layered locks on this girl make her stand out in the crowd. Matsudana won Color Champion at the competitive 2019 CABA Classic and Invited Champion at the 2020 AOA Nationals Show. Aphrodite was bred to our top herdsire, Locke's Kristoff for a 2019 cria. Kristoff, with his high level of density, fineness and top 1% EPD traits is a perfect match for Aphrodite, who also excels in these traits. She gave birth in August to a stunningly lusterous light fawn female, Anna. Anna and her half-sister Matsudana won a second place Produce of Dam award for Aphrodite at the competitive 2020 Suri Network Fleece Show. Her 2021 cria, Jonathan, sired by Josef won Champion and Most Uniform Fleece for Grade 1 Fleece in the 2022 AOA IFA Fleece Show. Aphrodite is stamping out consistently fine, uniform and densely locked offspring. A true stud female!

Josef is producing Champions! His offspring are stunning with super fine micron, high gloss luster and beautifully dense lock structure. He is the ultimate prepotent stud that passes his superior traits to his offspring. Josef won his first Get of Sire class in 2018 as a five year old stud. Josef is the son of multi-champion Pucara's Kahuna and Big Timber's award winning dam, KBTA's Kerolyn. His genetics are packed with the best suri bloodlines...Kahuna, Armani, Miquel, Uribe. Josef's offspring have proven his ability to pass through these awesome genetics. Josef's fine fleece is dense with incredible staple length. His first fleece AFD was a superfine 17.1 micron with an SD of 3.3 and is ranked in the top EPDS in the country. His second year fleece was a close 19 micron with a continued SD of 3.3. As noted in his biopsy report below, at 45 months, his AFD is a very fine 21 micron. One of Josef's fleece strengths is his staple length. At over 4 years, his staple length is over 6.5 inches annual growth. His staple length along with his above average density contributes to his superior annual fleece weight of over 11 lbs., putting him in the top 1% for FW in the most recent EPDs. In 2018, Josef won Reserve Invited Champion as a 4.5 year old competing against much younger animals. In 2017, Josef, as a 3.5 year old male, was awarded Invited Color Champion and First Place at the 2017 AOA National Halter Show for white suri male and Color Champion and First Place at the competitive 2017 CABA Classic Show. In 2016 as a mature male, he was awarded Color Champion and First Place at the 2016 Futurity Halter Show and First Place at the 2016 AOA Nationals Show. He also won First Place and Color Champion at the 2016 CABA show in both the halter and fleece shows. Josef was evaluated in 2017 in the SHIP (Suri Herd Improvement Program) by Cheryl Gehly. He received a perfect 5 score in all conformation categories. For fleece characteristics, he scored perfect 5's for lock structure, uniformity of color and fleece phenotype. He scored 4.5's for density and handle. He scored 4's in the areas of luster (luster score of 18), fineness (20 micron) and uniformity of micron. Josef is truly the whole package! Josef has outstanding rankings of Top 1-5% in the 2022 EPDs that confirm his genetic prepotence: Dr. Norm Evans conducted a skin biopsy analysis in 2017 on Josef at 45 months old. His true density is 53.5 follicles SQ MM of skin and 25 typical fiber clusters show an average S/P of 9.8 to 1. Tested 100 secondary fibers average of 20.1 microns while 50 primary fibers average 29.4 microns for a variation of 9.3 microns. Josef’s AFD on July 8, 2017 at 45 months of age figures 21.03 microns. Excellent results for a mature male.